I couldn't afford the house I really wanted, so I had to settle for second best.
我真心想要的房子我买不起，所以只得退而求其次了。
Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre.
弗吉尼娅是个完美主义者。她就是无法勉强接受任何平庸的东西。
Until then, we'll settle for elite airmen embracing their superhero status.
在这之前，我们将让这些精英飞人们继续做他们的超级英雄吧。
Argentina applied sufficient pressure to defeat Nigeria easily but had to settle for 1-0.
阿根廷疯狂施压，轻松击败尼日利亚，但比分只有1：0。
Almost every forecaster would settle for a ten year limit on the testing of their forecasts.
几乎每个预言家会对测试他们的预言设定一个十年的期限。
If a professional grading system existed, executives would never settle for a D- in their careers.
如果有专业的分级制度，经理人们永远不会满足于在职业生涯中获得D。
No one should settle for boring work, but I can’t force people to want heart pumping awesome work.
任何人都不应该满足于毫无乐趣而言的工作，但我也不能强迫人们对那些绝佳的工作怦然心动吧。
That refusal to settle for being “old” will only get stronger as the baby-boomers start turning 65.
随着婴儿潮这代人迈进65岁，他们拒不承认“老了”的心理只会越来越强。
Not all industries have bargains, though, and not all sellers will be eager to settle for lower prices.
但并非所有行业都有廉价品，也并非所有卖家都急于用较低的价格出售。
Feel like the absence of a bachelor's degree on your resume is forcing you to settle for a second-rate job?
感到履历里没有学士学位迫使你满足于一份二流工作？
While I started out only using the auto setting, I refused to simply settle for that and not learn more.
我开始使用自动对焦功能。 我不想老用这个功能而不再学更多的技巧了。
Society tells us that since nobody's perfect, we should lower our standards and settle for what we can get.
社会教导我们说人无完人，所以我们得降低标准，随遇而安。
When it comes to creating and governing content, it's easy to forget what we want, or even worse, to settle for less.
当创作和管理内容时，我们很容易忘记什么是自己想要的，甚至更糟的是满足于眼前的成果。
Own and respect your value. Never settle for less than you deserve or desire. Always ask for more than feels comfortable.
拥有并尊重自己的价值。永远都不要为低于你应得的或想要获得的价值而安顿下来。永远都要追求比舒适更高的境界。
Buyers would have less reason to settle for a used gas-powered vehicle when they could have a brand-new electric one for less.
当消费者能够以更便宜的价格买一辆全新的电动车的时候，他们可能就不再仅仅满足于开一辆二手的烧汽油的车子了。
Just remember that it's better to settle for lower pay at a job that can teach you something than to sell out on your goals.
只是你要记住，宁愿做一份工资低一点但是能让你成长的工作也不要放弃你的目标。
Because of my fear of losing you, I'll settle for less than I want, and this settling will surely lead to feelings of resentment.
因为我害怕失去你，我就会降低要求，而这种迁就会使我产生不满情绪。
Such talk has had little effect on rebel leaders, who maintain they will not settle for anything less than Colonel Gadhafi's departure.
这种会谈对叛军领导人的影响很小。他们坚持说，不会接受卡扎菲下台之外的任何解决方案。
LINQ is such a large and complex feature that they want to let it settle for a while before they got back and start making major changes.
LINQ是一个庞大和复杂的功能，他们希望它可以稳定一段时间再考虑是否对其进行较大的改变。
The problem is that many times parents give up trying to find the snacks that their kids like and settle for popular junk foods instead.
问题是很多时候父母们放弃了寻找孩子喜欢零食的努力，而安心于流行的垃圾食品。
I believe in all things being random and not ONE person has to settle for a situation, but can create it, and has the ability to change it.
我相信所有事情都存在偶然性，没有一个人能做到百分百的掌控局面，不过我们可以去创造，并且有这个实力去改变境遇。
In those cases, resource consumers must settle for URLs that merely name the resource they wish to obtain without also describing the resource.
在这些情况下，URL仅仅为资源消费者希望获取的资源命名，并不描述资源，资源消费者必须适应这一点。
When a long marriage isn't as good as it could be, the temptation can be to bail out or to sweep the issues under the carpet and settle for the status quo.
当一段漫长的婚姻不尽如人意时，人们可能很渴望摆脱困境或掩盖问题安于现状。
Mr Posen argued that the monetary-policy committee should opt for printing more money and should not “settle for slow growth out of misplaced fear of inflation”.
Posen先生表明，货币政策委员会应该选择加大货币发行量的做法，而不应该选择“因过于害怕通胀而放缓经济增长”的做法。
Today I am 39, with too many ex-boyfriends to count and, I am told, two grim-seeming options to face down: either stay single or settle for a “good enough” mate.
现在我三十九岁了，交往过的前男友难以计数，而且，人们告诉我必须面对两个看似严酷的选项：要么保持单身，要么找个“还可以”的伴儿安定下来。
Instead of putting an end to the situation, you settle for the unsatisfactory relationship thinking that it's better than no relationship at all - which isn't true.
你会勉强接受这种不能令人满意的关系，而不是结束那种境况，认为这总比没有关系好——事实并非如此。
That doesn't mean they'll settle for mediocrity; their criteria can be very high, but as soon as they find the pasta sauce or the business card that has the qualities they want, they're satisfied.
这不表示他们甘愿接受平庸：他们的标准可能很高，但是一旦找到了希望中的东西，比如意粉酱或名片，他们就满足了。
However if things don't go according to plan for you I wish you all the love happiness and joy in the world and don't settle for anything less than the best since that is absolutely what you deserve.
可如果事情没能按你的计划进行，我会用世间全部的爱、幸福和欢乐祝福你，而如果它不够好就不要为之停留，因为你绝对值得拥有最好的。
However if things don't go according to plan for you I wish you all the love happiness and joy in the world and don't settle for anything less than the best since that is absolutely what you deserve.
可如果事情没能按你的计划进行，我会用世间全部的爱、幸福和欢乐祝福你，而如果它不够好就不要为之停留，因为你绝对值得拥有最好的。
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